Azure Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 2,847 4,609 6,988
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.08% 17.02% 17.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.65% 43.63% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,097 3,318 5,138
10th Percentile £375 £413 £423
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £693
90th Percentile £768 £788 £775
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 19
10th Percentile £17.78 £21.53 £22.58
25th Percentile £22.08 £24.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £34.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% -38.18% -
75th Percentile £29.40 £61.00 £81.88
90th Percentile £35.00 £80.20 £91.72
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
% change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +2.90%

All Cloud Skills
London

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,676 10,565 16,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.70% 39.02% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 7,715 12,114
10th Percentile £341 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 91 86
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.00 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in London.

Daily rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in London

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +1 453 £550 -4.35% 158
West London +7 38 £475 -24.00% 37
East London -1 35 £540 +4.85% 38
South London +15 22 £475 -8.65% 17
North London +2 2 £438 +191.67% 3
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 158 (5.55%) SharePoint
2 112 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 82 (2.88%) Apache
4 64 (2.25%) Confluence
5 62 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
6 52 (1.83%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.95%) IIS
8 21 (0.74%) CMS
9 11 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
9 11 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.35%) nginx
10 10 (0.35%) Site Server
11 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.25%) Skype for Business
12 6 (0.21%) JBoss
12 6 (0.21%) Tornado
13 5 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 62 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 31 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.070%) Sketch
8 2 (0.070%) Trello
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.035%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.035%) InDesign
9 1 (0.035%) InVision
9 1 (0.035%) Marvel
9 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 76 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.53%) Endur
4 10 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.28%) Shopify
7 6 (0.21%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.18%) SAP GRC
8 5 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.14%) SAP HR
10 3 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.11%) Primavera
11 2 (0.070%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.070%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.070%) Infor SunSystems
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 762 (26.77%) AWS
2 641 (22.51%) Azure DevOps
3 383 (13.45%) GCP
4 333 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
5 317 (11.13%) Power Platform
6 299 (10.50%) Entra ID
7 165 (5.80%) Serverless
8 160 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 149 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
10 143 (5.02%) Azure Service Bus
11 134 (4.71%) GitHub
12 114 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 114 (4.00%) PaaS
13 106 (3.72%) IaaS
14 103 (3.62%) Azure Functions
15 100 (3.51%) Power Automate
16 97 (3.41%) PowerApps
17 93 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
18 91 (3.20%) SaaS
19 85 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 166 (5.83%) Firewall
2 112 (3.93%) DNS
3 60 (2.11%) VPN
4 49 (1.72%) DHCP
5 48 (1.69%) WAN
6 46 (1.62%) LAN
7 43 (1.51%) Network Security
8 33 (1.16%) MPLS
9 31 (1.09%) TCP/IP
10 29 (1.02%) Wireless
11 28 (0.98%) SD-WAN
12 26 (0.91%) SAN
13 25 (0.88%) VLAN
14 24 (0.84%) OSPF
15 22 (0.77%) BGP
15 22 (0.77%) Internet
16 21 (0.74%) HTTP
17 19 (0.67%) IPsec
18 17 (0.60%) NAS
19 13 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (14.96%) SQL Server
2 247 (8.68%) Power BI
3 176 (6.18%) Data Lake
4 158 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
5 149 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
6 132 (4.64%) NoSQL
7 108 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 93 (3.27%) Big Data
9 55 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 52 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 50 (1.76%) MongoDB
12 49 (1.72%) MySQL
13 44 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
14 35 (1.23%) Tableau
15 26 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 23 (0.81%) Metadata
17 22 (0.77%) RDBMS
18 21 (0.74%) Delta Lake
18 21 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 19 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 208 (7.31%) Git
2 117 (4.11%) JIRA
3 98 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.35%) GitLab
5 50 (1.76%) Cypress.io
6 48 (1.69%) SpecFlow
7 47 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 41 (1.44%) Selenium
9 30 (1.05%) TeamCity
10 29 (1.02%) Postman
11 28 (0.98%) Maven
12 19 (0.67%) JMeter
13 17 (0.60%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 14 (0.49%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.39%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.39%) Visual Studio Team System
16 10 (0.35%) SoapUI
17 9 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
17 9 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 762 (26.77%) Finance
2 612 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 287 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 245 (8.61%) Banking
5 224 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 168 (5.90%) Front Office
7 90 (3.16%) Marketing
8 74 (2.60%) Retail
9 73 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 53 (1.86%) Back Office
11 43 (1.51%) Investment Banking
12 42 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 38 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 37 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
15 36 (1.26%) Law
16 35 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 31 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 29 (1.02%) Legal
19 25 (0.88%) Electronics
19 25 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 635 (22.30%) Developer
2 464 (16.30%) Architect
3 344 (12.08%) Senior
4 282 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
5 203 (7.13%) Data Engineer
6 181 (6.36%) Lead
7 168 (5.90%) Analyst
8 158 (5.55%) Software Engineer
9 155 (5.44%) Consultant
10 153 (5.37%) Senior Developer
11 134 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
12 123 (4.32%) .NET Developer
13 113 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 113 (3.97%) Python Developer
14 105 (3.69%) C# Developer
15 97 (3.41%) Data Architect
16 91 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
17 90 (3.16%) Full Stack Developer
18 88 (3.09%) Azure Developer
19 87 (3.06%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (16.26%) .NET
2 205 (7.20%) React
3 161 (5.66%) .NET Core
4 148 (5.20%) XML
5 123 (4.32%) HTML
6 117 (4.11%) REST
7 116 (4.07%) .NET Framework
8 102 (3.58%) AngularJS
9 98 (3.44%) CSS
9 98 (3.44%) Kafka
10 88 (3.09%) PySpark
11 85 (2.99%) ASP.NET
12 83 (2.92%) Node.js
13 79 (2.77%) Redux
14 73 (2.56%) JSON
15 65 (2.28%) Web Services
16 57 (2.00%) gRPC
16 57 (2.00%) RESTful
17 54 (1.90%) Protocol Buffers
18 53 (1.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 143 (5.02%) Product Ownership
2 105 (3.69%) Fixed Income
3 99 (3.48%) Hedge funds
4 90 (3.16%) Derivative
5 86 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 75 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 72 (2.53%) Equities
8 59 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 58 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 58 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 57 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
11 53 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 41 (1.44%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 36 (1.26%) PKI
15 32 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 26 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
17 25 (0.88%) Mobile App
17 25 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
18 24 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 340 (11.94%) Windows
2 179 (6.29%) Linux
3 130 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.65%) Unix
6 29 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.74%) Android
7 21 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.46%) VMS
10 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.42%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.39%) Solaris
11 11 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.32%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.21%) CentOS
16 3 (0.11%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,048 (36.81%) DevOps
2 883 (31.02%) Agile
3 457 (16.05%) CI/CD
4 353 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
5 345 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 326 (11.45%) Migration
7 287 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
8 282 (9.91%) Scrum
9 248 (8.71%) Analytics
10 226 (7.94%) Data Modelling
11 191 (6.71%) ETL
12 182 (6.39%) TDD
13 174 (6.11%) Full Stack Development
14 166 (5.83%) Microservices
15 162 (5.69%) Computer Science
16 157 (5.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 148 (5.20%) Project Delivery
18 147 (5.16%) Test Automation
19 145 (5.09%) Asset Management
20 136 (4.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 622 (21.85%) SQL
2 578 (20.30%) Python
3 506 (17.77%) C#
4 408 (14.33%) PowerShell
5 243 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 181 (6.36%) Java
7 176 (6.18%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.72%) Bicep
9 66 (2.32%) Bash
10 55 (1.93%) T-SQL
11 41 (1.44%) Scala
12 38 (1.33%) C++
13 29 (1.02%) Go
13 29 (1.02%) R
14 22 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 18 (0.63%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.53%) PHP
17 15 (0.53%) Rust
18 14 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 263 (9.24%) Security Cleared
2 262 (9.20%) Degree
3 231 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.69%) Azure Certification
5 103 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 42 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.40%) CISSP
8 34 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 29 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 27 (0.95%) CISM
12 21 (0.74%) CCNP
13 20 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.42%) CCNA
16 11 (0.39%) PMP
17 10 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (3.86%) QA
2 88 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 50 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (1.76%) NIST
4 48 (1.69%) GDPR
5 37 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 33 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.12%) SLA
8 20 (0.70%) WCAG
9 16 (0.56%) NCSC
10 14 (0.49%) PMO
11 10 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.35%) GRC
12 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.21%) COBIT
14 5 (0.18%) IFRS
14 5 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 5 (0.18%) ISO 31000
14 5 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 420 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 201 (7.06%) Docker
3 74 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.49%) vSphere
8 9 (0.32%) Firmware
9 7 (0.25%) ACF2
9 7 (0.25%) IAG
9 7 (0.25%) RACF
9 7 (0.25%) XenApp
10 6 (0.21%) KVM
10 6 (0.21%) NFS
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.18%) vCloud
12 4 (0.14%) Shibboleth
13 2 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 283 (9.94%) Terraform
2 245 (8.61%) Kubernetes
3 123 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 99 (3.48%) Ansible
5 68 (2.39%) SCCM
6 38 (1.33%) Puppet
7 34 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (0.84%) Grafana
10 22 (0.77%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.56%) Progress Chef
13 15 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.46%) Argo
14 13 (0.46%) SCOM
15 12 (0.42%) PingFederate
16 11 (0.39%) Netcool
17 9 (0.32%) Kibana
18 8 (0.28%) Tivoli
18 8 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 960 (33.72%) Microsoft
2 218 (7.66%) Databricks
3 182 (6.39%) Oracle
4 127 (4.46%) Google
5 119 (4.18%) VMware
6 84 (2.95%) SAP
7 72 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 69 (2.42%) Cisco
9 56 (1.97%) Splunk
10 46 (1.62%) Citrix
11 41 (1.44%) CyberArk
12 39 (1.37%) Salesforce
13 31 (1.09%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.02%) MuleSoft
15 28 (0.98%) Informatica
15 28 (0.98%) Red Hat
16 27 (0.95%) F5
17 26 (0.91%) Okta
18 25 (0.88%) IBM
19 24 (0.84%) Dell